Travel through the farm and live a leisurely life by farming

Chapter 115 Making Sweet Potato Flour

Su He first went to the cellar to get a basket of sweet potatoes. There was still dirt on the sweet potatoes, so he asked Xia Mei and Su Chi to fetch water in the yard to wash them first.

Seeing that they were in high spirits, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Luo came out to help after the work in the kitchen was finished.

After washing all the sweet potatoes in the basket, start to rub them into powder.

Su He searched the house for a long time but couldn't find any suitable tools. He was getting worried. Finally, Old Man Su saw him. After asking Su He what he wanted to do, he found a stone mill in an inconspicuous corner of the yard.

He fetched some well water, took a bamboo brush and scrubbed the millstone, and it was clean in a short while.

"Look, does this work?"

Su He nodded. Since he couldn't find a suitable tool, he could only try this first.

If I had to do it by hand, I don’t know how long it would take to finish.

A few people first cut the freshly washed sweet potatoes into small pieces, then put them into the stone mill and started grinding them. After a while, sweet potato juice slowly flowed out from the other end.

Su He went into the house to find Old Lady Su, took out a piece of clean gauze, poured the freshly ground sweet potato juice into the gauze, and kept rubbing and stirring it. This step was to filter the powder.

After going back and forth several times, put the filtered powder water in a basin and leave it in the yard to let it slowly settle.

After doing all this, Su He stood up and clapped his hands.

"That's good!"

"All right?"

Several people were full of confusion. What kind of fan was Su He talking about? Did she look like this?

Su He looked at the questioning faces of the others, then came back to his senses and chuckled, "We need to wait for it to settle overnight, it's not ready yet."

After hearing this, several people were relieved, as they had thought that they had not succeeded.

The next day.

After picking mushrooms, Su He hurried to see what happened to the sweet potato flour that had settled yesterday.

She carefully poured out the water in the basin slowly. After all the water was poured out, she saw the lumps of sweet potato flour settled at the bottom of the basin.

Find a shovel, scoop out the white sweet potato flour at the bottom of the basin, put it in a water tank, and then pour clean water into the tank.

Take a stick and stir it continuously. Finally, filter it again with yesterday's gauze and wash the powder for the second time.

Then place it in a basin of water and let it sit for another day.

When he went to check the next day, Su He saw that the water in the basin had become clear and the white sediment under the water was faintly visible. Su He was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that it was almost successful.

Su He rolled up her sleeves and carefully poured out the water from the basin. She was very gentle, for fear of disturbing the powder at the bottom of the basin.

Just like yesterday, after pouring out all the water, use a shovel to scoop out the white powder lumps at the bottom.

Put all the powder blocks into a clean basin, scoop a ladle of hot water, pour it into the basin little by little, stirring constantly until it becomes a paste.

Finally, feeling that it was almost done, he asked Su Chi to light a fire. After cleaning the pot, he scooped half a pot of water into it, lit a fire and boiled the water in the pot.

Su He took out the gourd ladle that she had asked Old Man Su to make according to her instructions the day before. It was full of round holes. It was really suitable for making sweet potato flour.

Seeing the water in the pot bubbling and boiling, Su He said to Xia Mei, "Sister-in-law, when the sweet potato flour in the pot is set, take it out and put it in this basin."

Su He pointed to a large basin of cold water on the stove and gave instructions to Xia Mei.

Xia Mei nodded. She was still a little nervous. She had never seen this before and was afraid that she wouldn't do it well. If she failed, it would be a waste.

"It's okay. When you hear me say it's okay, just fish it out. Be gentle and don't let it break."

Su He saw that Xia Mei was a little nervous, so he smiled and said a few words to comfort her.

After saying that, Su He picked up a big spoon, scooped a spoonful of the sweet potato flour paste he had just mixed, and put it into the gourd ladle with holes.

Then the people around saw the sweet potato powder paste in the gourd ladle in Su He's hand slowly dripping into the pot of boiling water, their eyes full of surprise.

Su He saw the sweet potato paste dripping from the pot, moving slowly and continuously, and the sweet potato vermicelli in the pot was soon cooked to about 70% done. Su He saw that it was almost set, and said to Xia Mei:

"Okay, slowly fish it out."

Xia Mei nodded repeatedly, and according to what Su He had just said, she quickly took out the sweet potato flour from the pot and put it into the basin of cold water.

Seeing that the sweet potato noodles she had scooped out were not broken into strips, Xia Mei couldn't help but raise her head and smile towards Su He.

Seeing this, Su He smiled at her and indicated that she was doing a good job.

The two of them put in the sweet potato flour paste, while one took it out and rinsed it with cold water.

Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Luo, who were standing by, saw that the basin of sweet potato flour was almost full and immediately brought a new basin.

Several people worked together for almost an hour and finally made all the sweet potato flour.

After finishing all these, Su He's arms started to feel sore because he had been maintaining the same position. When he stopped, his arms felt a little sore.

Su He shook his hands, pinched two more handfuls, and without taking a rest, several people carried the prepared sweet potato flour to the yard.

Old Man Su had already set up a rack in the yard as Su He had said before, and then he hung up the freshly cooked sweet potato noodles one by one and placed them in the yard to dry.

"Is this done?"

"When can we eat it?"

Several people started asking.

Su He breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said loudly: "Just wait until it dries."

"Once it's dried, I'll make it for you right away. Can you be the first person to try it?"

Su He smiled and poked Su Chi's forehead.

It seems that the sweet potato flour is quite successful. We will know how it tastes when we try it after it is dried.

If this method is really feasible, we won’t have to worry about sweet potatoes at home in the future. We can make sweet potato starch or sweet potato powder, which can be stored for a long time. Then we can set up a stall in the town or sell it to passing merchants.

Those traveling merchants are always on the move and have to sleep in the open air. Their food must not be good. If they have sweet potato flour, they can have a hot meal in the wild.

And according to Su He, a lot of sweet potatoes were planted in the cornfield this time, so the yield next year will definitely be considerable.

The more Su He thought about it, the more excited he became. He was extremely happy that he had thought of another way to make money.

If this path is feasible, it can be developed into an industrial chain in the future and become bigger and bigger.

As Su He thought about it, the corners of his mouth slowly rose. In his mind, he could already imagine the endless money that would be earned. By then, the Su family would be truly wealthy.